recluse
a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
Also incluse. a religious voluntary immured in a cave, hut, or the like, or one remaining within a cell for life.
shut off or apart from the world; living in seclusion, often for religious reasons.
characterized by seclusion; solitary.
Origin of recluse
1Other words from recluse
- non·re·clu·sive, adjective
- un·re·cluse, adjective
- un·re·clu·sive, adjective
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How to use recluse in a sentence
What would have caused them to become the notorious recluses of Fifth Avenue?
The musical simply lets the women morph from young beauties to near-recluses during intermission.
A few bits of wood in a heap in a corner bore further witness to the poverty of the recluses.
An Episode Under the Terror | Honore de BalzacHow much good those pious recluses might have done, had their piety taken a more practical form!
Beacon Lights of History, Volume V | John LordThere you have the main lines of the existence not only of myself, but of thousands of other English rural recluses.
These hermits and recluses lived in places where alms were likely to be found, and an almsbox was hung up for receiving gifts.
Curiosities of Christian History | Croake JamesHermits occasionally visited their fellow-men, but those called recluses abstained from any such visits.
Curiosities of Christian History | Croake James
British Dictionary definitions for recluse
/ (rɪˈkluːs) /
a person who lives in seclusion
a person who lives in solitude to devote himself to prayer and religious meditation; a hermit, anchorite, or anchoress
solitary; retiring
Origin of recluse
1Derived forms of recluse
- reclusion (rɪˈkluːʒən), noun
- reclusive, adjective
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